re: how do I install XP over Vista Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 7:34 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Kilsally (2 messages posted) had a similar problem with SATA on a UL8 motherboard - did not even get as far as loading the SATA drivers - I got a blue screen of death. I found that in the BIOS settings (by pressing delete in this instance at boot up) that under IDE settings the SATA drives could be set as RAID or IDE - they were set to IDE. I changed that to RAID which upon restart allowed the Vista install to go ahead without the BSOD and allowed me to load the SATA drivers (I changed the BIOS settings back to IDE from RAID after install and worked fine) I also had problems with the same motherboard which had an ICPLUS network port built into the motherboard which Vista does not recognise. ICPLUS produces drivers for XP and XP 64 and Linux but no Vista drivers - apparently the XP driver will install on Vist 32 bit. However I am using Vista 64 bit which requires signed drivers - the only way around this was to either buy a new network card or use the following work around. Upon boot up press f8 which bring up the start up menu which allows booting in safe mode etc - there is new option here which allows the computer to boot with unsigned drivers - select this and install the Windows XP 64 drivers - this gets the ICPLUS network port working just fine. THe only draw back with this is you have to press f8 every time you boot and select boot with unsigned drivers - if you boot normally it skips the network port drivers as they are unsigned - nothing wrong with the drivers they just need microsoft to sign them and they will wotk fine with Vista. Also had problems on another computer which only happens when you have three things all at the one time a nforce 3 motherboard, a radeon graphics card and a dual core amd processor - in such an instance you will not get the aero interface to work due to nforce 3 agp chipset drivers not being right - work around is either change motherboard, change gfx card to nvidia one or diable one of the cores of the dual core cpu which will enable aero interface. - weird but true. Written in response to: re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 1:49 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] how do I install XP over Vista (sam: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 2:40 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 4:02 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (sam: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 4:41 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 4:54 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 5:05 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (sam: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 9:24 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 10:15 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (sam: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 10:37 am) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 5:52 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 7:10 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (bethlaptop: Thu, Apr 12, 2007, 12:35 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Thu, Apr 12, 2007, 1:21 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Steve: Thu, Apr 12, 2007, 1:49 pm) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Kilsally: Wed, Sep 26, 2007, 7:34 am) re: how do I install XP over Vista (Antony: Tue, Sep 29, 2009, 5:04 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum